Paper Trey Ink's Make it Monday #255: String Art Using Die Cuts

Amy has a wonderful video showing 3 ways to use string art on your cards using die cuts.  Check out the video HERE.

I used a PTI Woodblock Prints stencil and Clarity stencil brushes to apply my background pattern on pale peony cardstock.  I absolutely love these brushes!  They make it easy to apply ink to the stencil with no splotchiness and no foam getting stuck in the stencil to worry about.  I also love this new pale peony color by PTI.  It is a shade lighter than melon berry thus making it perfect for layering in these flowers from PTI's Graceful Greetings II.  I wrapped some gold thread around a scallop oval.  I added some gold glitter embossing powder to some of the stamped flowers.  I added one more gold element by using gold posterboard as my card base.  (Thanks to a good friend I have quite a bit of this to use...she mentioned you can get it really cheap sometimes at Hobby Lobby...a great alternative to expensive gold cardstock but still looks just as nice).   Isn't that big "Thanks" die just lovely.  I cut it in Berry Sorbet.  I love how the bold size makes it star of the card...conveying my thanks in a big way! Oh I almost  forgot I also added tiny dots of gold to the middle of each flower in my background paper using a Copic Twinkling Stars gold marker.  I hardly ever use metallics in my projects but I do love the royal look of gold.  I should use it more often!
Supplies listed and linked below:

PTI Graceful Greetings II Stamps	PTI Big Basics: Thanks Die	PTI Woodblock Prints Stencils

PTI Pale Peony Dye Ink	PTI Berry Sorbet Dye Ink	PTI Aqua Mist Dye Ink

Momento Pear Tart Dye Ink	Clarity Stencil Brushes	Wow Embossing Glitter Gold

PTI Hawaiian Shores Dye Ink	Metallic Gold Thread	Metallic Poster Board

Copic Gold Glitter Marker
Note: I couldn't find the exact items I used to link to for the gold embossing powder, poster board, and the gold thread so I linked to similar items.
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Papertrey Ink Make It Monday #254: Stenciling with Texture Paste

This week Ashley teaches us how to use our texture paste with stencils to make a multi-colored card.  Check out her awesome video here.

I had bought some texture paste several months ago but had yet to use it so when I saw the lastest MIM I was very excited to have an excuse to finally use it!

Ashley's technique involves apply texture paste over the stencil smoothing it out and immediately adding color to the wet paste without removing the stencil.  Ashley used reinkers in her video but I dind't have reinkers in the colors I wanted to use so I just smooshed the ink pad on my craft mat and added some water to color my images.  Ashley made this whole process look very easy.  The texture paste itself was very easy to apply and smooth out.  I had some problems adding color though I kept leaving indents in the paste with my brush and in a few places the ink seeped under the stencil.  That is why I used a very bold sentiment to cover my mistakes.  The largest and medium flower have the texture pate on them.  The leaves and smallest flowers are just stenciled with ink like normal.  Once again I used my clarity stencil brushes and  I love the soft look you can achieve with these brushes.  I was pleasantly surprise at how the texture paste holds up.  I even die cut this piece with stitched rectangle die and it didn't crack or anything.  Plus it was very easy to stamp the flower details over the texture paste flowers.  I finally invested in a clear wink of stella pen and applied it to the sentiment.  I am soo impressed with the sparkle of this pen.  If you cick on the photo to make it bigger I think you can see it too.   In the past I only had a white pen which didn't seem to sparkle as much and also changed the color of your image a bit (which is some cases like my last post is good).

So since I had some seepage of ink with the above card I decided to try one more card.  My daughter wanted to make our piano teacher a card for her birthday so she suggested we try a rainbow.

This time I used reinkers but still had some seepage and managed to put more indents in the texture paste rainbow.  However, I was able to cover up the seepage with the cloud stencil.    This rainbow stencil is in two pieces.  The three bows are done first then another stencil gets layered over top to complete the rainbow. So I applied the texture paste to the first stencil let it dry then applied the second and thus the stencil rested on the previous texture pasted bow which made it higher so my last two bows are raised more than the first.  I think if I were to do this again I would tape the two rainbow stencils together and use them at the same time to apply texture paste to the full rainbow.  I used the palette knife to apply some swirly texture to the clouds.  Love this effect!  My daughter added rainbow colors to the die cut words using the stencil brushes and also some makeup brushes (since I didn't have enough stencil brushes for each color family).  She positioned everything on the page just as she wanted.  She loves her bling so she was excited to add sparkle to the bows with the Wink of Stella brush pen.    We combined several stamps to create the sentiment "Wishing you sunshine and rainbows on your birthday."  Luv, luv, luv, that sentiment.  I can't wait to try making this card again myself!

Supplies listed below:

Birthday Wishes Card:

Make It Market Mini Kit: Color Pop Florals	PTI Big Basics: Birthday Die	PTI Berry Sorbet Dye Ink

PTI Melon Berry Dye Ink	PTILovely Lady Dye Ink	PTI Mint Julep Dye Ink

I will have to check and see which reinkers I have so I can figure out which colors I used on the rainbow card. I have some errands to run so I will have to finish my supply list later. Thanks for stopping by! Please come back again!

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Papertrey Ink Make it Monday #238 and Case This Sketch #158

This week's make it Monday involves Valentine Ombre Stamping.  Melissa has a wonderful video showing how she created a beautiful Valentine card using ombre stamping.  Check it out here.

I really didn't have much Valentine stamps or dies so I decided to use an tweed (looks like an arrow to me!)  stencil to make my ombre Valentine.

I sought out the latest sketch challenge over at Case This Sketch for inspiration.

I used distress ink to ink up the stencil.  I am always amazed at how effortlessly the distress ink is to blend together!  I used baker's twine to mimic the three lines behind the oval.  A heart is more suitable for a Valentine so thus that replaced the oval.  I normally stamp elements on white card stocking using colored ink but this time I think the colored card stock helped the elements stand out more.

I cut the small heart on the tag  out of plain ordinary white fun foam.  You know the kind the kids play with.  I colored it with a Copic marker to make it red and an interesting thing happened. After coloring the foam took on a glittery appearance. I tried to capture it in the photo above to show you but it really is very glittery in person.  I used foam tape to pop up the rose a bit.  I also heat embossed the sentiment on the tag and inked the tag edges a bit to give some depth.

Supplies are listed and linked below:

PTI The Sweet Life Stamp Set

PTI The Sweet Life Die Collection (set of 2)

Hero Arts Prayers Stamps

PTI Tiny Tags Die

PTI Sweet Blush Cardstock

PTI Simply Chartreuse Cardstock

Ink for Roses:

PTI Sweet Blush Dye Ink Layer 1

PTI Berry Sorbet Dye Ink Layer 2

PTI Pure Poppy Dye Ink Layer 3

Ink for leaves:

Momento Pear Tart Dye Ink Layer 1

Momento Bamboo Leaves Dye Ink Layer 2

PTI=Papertrey Ink
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